Diane Arbus’s Strange and Surreal Visions of New York

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A new exhibit reveals how the great photographer found inspiration in the Big Apple.

Published Jul. 12 2016 1:00AM EDT

articles/2016/07/12/diane-arbus-s-strange-and-surreal-visions-of-new-york/160711-freedlander-diane-arbus-tease_j2vcsb — Diane Arbus

When Diane Arbus told her husband one day in 1955, “I can’t do it anymore. I am not going to do it anymore,” and walked out of their struggling fashion photography partnership, it was one of the most significant acts of renunciation in American photography.

By the next year, she was...

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Diane Arbus’s Strange and Surreal Visions of New York

A new exhibit reveals how the great photographer found inspiration in the Big Apple.

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David Freedlander